Simply Better Horse

Don Scott's first book turned the racing world upside down, and it did it with ratings: for the first time an Australian horse racing punter could put a figure on the race, then a figure on every r...

The 6-Point Divisor Plan is an Australian horse racing staking plan from 1989, and the thing that keeps it survivable is not the arithmetic — it is the safety brake. You run into four losers in a r...

Weight ratings or speed ratings? Philip Roy tested both on Australian horse racing form, three months at the Sydney tracks, and one of them finished a long way in front. Writing in Practical Puntin...

In Australian horse racing, 99 per cent of punters fail to make money over a 12-month period — and exotic betting is where they lose fastest. Don Scott, a professional punter who spent the sixties ...

There is no short cut in Australian horse racing, and Don Scott is the proof: he worked 12 to 14 hours a day, seven days a week, at form study. Practical Punting's Brian Blackwell interviewed him i...

In Australian horse racing, most punters bet with bookmakers all their lives without ever learning how a bookie makes his book, and it is hard to beat a man at a job you cannot describe. Statsman, ...

Danny O'Brien remains confident that Star Witness can win the UK July Cup at Newmarket - but he's praying the track is not badly rain-affected. The 'wet' is being blamed for Star Witness's 3rd plac...

The Argument for ShortnessAt Randwick on Saturday there was a horse in the first race that simply stood out.Yet he started at $3.20, and there was a bit better on offer from various bagmen. He'd bl...

Here's an experiment: For the next 100 races, simply try to pick the winner. Don't worry about price. Just go for the maximum number of winners, but you can't skip any races. I'll bet that no mat...

Disturbing news from the US overnight relating to the pending closure of the famous Hollywood Park racetrack

Tony Vasil doesn't normally throw his horses in at the deep end but it was easy to see why he ran two-year-old filly Psychologist on debut in the Blue Diamond Prelude at Caulfield.The Choisir filly...

A muscled-up Triple Honour is back at Chris Waller's stable with the trainer excited by both his appearance and his prospects.Waller said a tilt at a second Doncaster Handicap victory was on the ag...